Super Mario Maker players are 99.62% of the way to beating every single level - and they've only got a month left to clear 178 of the most devious platformer levels ever made
Mar. 5, 2024The clock is ticking
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The original Super Mario Maker will effectively shut down in April, and a group of players is racing against the clock to beat every single level before the servers go offline.
Team 0% includes some extremely talented Mario players and speedrunners, and if you think that means those final remaining levels are ridiculously challenging, well, you’d be right. There’s aYouTube playlistcollecting whatever known footage of the unfinished levels exists, and it serves as an ode to the ridiculous limits level creators have been able to stretch Super Mario Maker towards. Just take a look at the level below - I can barely make sense of what’s happening in it, much less imagine the skill it’d take to complete.
Of course, all these levelshavebeen completed at least once before, since Super Mario Maker won’t allow you to upload a level until you’ve beaten it yourself. (That’s how clear videos for uncleared levels like the one above can exist.) Some impossible levels created through hacks or exploits have been uploaded online, but for the handful that haven’t yet been deleted by Nintendo’s moderators, Team 0% has already checked them out and removed them from the totals.
Team 0% players are still averaging dozens of clears a day, but the rate has been slowing down dramatically now that it’s down to the absolute toughest levels. Still, at the current clear rate, Super Mario Maker will be beaten by March 9, according to the automated estimate on theTeam 0% Discord- but that date has already been pushed back a few times in the days since I started following the group’s progress.
If you’ve still got a Wii U hooked up (I do) and you think you’ve got what it takes to defeat some uber-challenging Mario levels (I do not), take a look at theremaining stages, grab a level ID, and do what you can to help Team 0% reach the finish line. Know that I’ll be rooting for you along the way.
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